We received this from Mark Reynolds, CCL US Executive Director, yesterday, by email. Whoop! Whoop! “Today, Canada has shown true environmental leadership. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced earlier that, in order to ensure a healthy climate, Canada will adopt a national price on carbon pollution starting in January 2019. Specifically, Canada will implement a carbon…
This week has been hugely exciting in the fight to combat climate change. A CCL UK contingent sat down with civil servants, journalists and energy companies on Wednesday (10 Oct 2018) to hear the hotly anticipated launch of Policy Exchange’s ‘The Future of Carbon Pricing’ report. In the same week, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on…
The Nobel Prize for Economics has been won by carbon pricing advocates, William Nordhaus and Paul Romer. This week has been a seismic shift in the fight against climate change and for CCL across the world. In the same week as the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said we had to move much more…
Big step forward in fixing climate change! An exciting report has just been released, recommending ‘an independent carbon tax with dividends’ – which is the Citizens’ Climate Lobby preferred solution to climate change and air pollution. As we understand it, Policy Exchange, widely viewed as Britain’s leading think tank and the author of the report,…
Excellent to see an article in the widely-read journal Newsweek about the shift taking place in American politics – despite Trump.
Here’s an example of a letter which could be written regarding the carbon pricing report:
This is the letter I wrote to my MP Thangham Debonairre about this very exciting and important development:
Tuesday 20 November 2018, 8pm Join with Zoom via this link – https://zoom.us/j/861354777 (If you need to dial in from a phone instead, please see the numbers at the end) Free to participate but a donation would support our work. Pictured: Cathy Orlando with Al Gore, her husband Sanjiv and daughter Sophia. Cathy Orlando is…
Join Professor Dave Waltham and weather enthusiast Eric Gilbert to discuss weather since 1984, how much time for action we have to keep within the 1.5 degrees global temperature rise, and how a carbon fee and dividend can help. Tuesday 23 October 2018, 7.30pm In person: the Enterprise Centre at St John’s School, Marlborough, Wiltshire…
MESSAGE FROM THE POLICY EXCHANGE: Please note that we are delaying publication of our report on carbon pricing until Tuesday 17th July, and the event is postponed until October. This is an event organised by the Policy Exchange, a London-based think tank that has influenced a lot of Conservative party policy. One of the guest…
